How do you feed your horses haylage in the field without them...

[rubyrumba]

...weeing on it? Can't put it in haynets as all the fencing is electric all the way round and i'd prefer not to use them anyway. Nearly as soon as i put fresh piles out one of them will go to wee on it! HELP!

 

[Puppy]

Hmm, mine don't tend to wee on it, but my mares are rather tidy and have set loo places in the field....

Anyway, to save it getting tramped in the mud/blown away, I am going to invest in an hay hutch this winter

http://www.hay-hutch.co.uk/

 

[NeedNewHorse]

Well you can't really unless you are prepared to buy some sort of hay container or something. If you cannot afford one, could you not get a bit handy with the old DIY and make some wooden posts to hang haynets from (safely)??

I would help though if you could put it out daily rather than one big load they would stand on and everything.

xxx

 

[helenhorse]

why not put small piles down everywhere, that way, they cnt pee on ALL of them

and encourages them to forage

 

[rubyrumba]

I do put it out daily, twice daily. There are 3 of them and they have 6 piles. It is the two boys (shock horror) that wee on them, not the filly!

 

[dessmont]

We put smaller piles down and they seem ok. I know for a fact that one of those hay hutches would be used for a game of horse rugby/football and I know Monty would get it stuck round his neck!!!

 

[ElvisandTilly]

How about making paddock pillows out of squares of plastic garden fence netting, tying together with twine. If you search on internet for paddock pillows there are better instructions with pictures than my description of them!!!!

 

[Spot_the_Risk]

We put out a round bale with a feeder over it. It last four between eight and ten days, the haylage we buy is more like hay. We get no wastage this way!

 

[soph21]

My colt I had done this, even though there was only 3 of them in the field, I put out 4 piles

 

[Ginny24]

Buy a greedy cob ?? They hoover up every last bit - as if they would waste food?!

 

[soph21]

lol, my cob's a fuss a$$, he'll only eat certain hay/haylege

 

[Puppy]

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why not put small piles down everywhere, that way, they cnt pee on ALL of them

and encourages them to forage

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Not necessarily, I had a TB who would go round pissing on all of them! Vandal that he was!

 

[rubyrumba]

Yes and all the piles i put out last night were smelling of wee and left. I had to remove them and give the starving creatures fresh!

 

[Faithkat]

Put it some sort of hay feeder. If you can't afford to buy one, tie four pallets together to make a "box".

 

[soph21]

Forrester thats a bloody good idea!
I might try that lol!

 

[3Beasties]

We use a large tractor Tyre for ours, would post a piccy of it in use but I'm not on my PC

 

[SpruceRI]

I can vouch for tractor/JCB tyres too, as hay 'roundels'. My Shettie used to wee on the hay. Now he can't reach!!!

 

[Puppy]

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If you can't afford to buy one, tie four pallets together to make a "box".

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Personally I wouldn't like to put pallets in the field either.

 

[SO1]

Maybe put a couple of sections of straw out so they can wee on that if they want to wee on something soft and they might not use the hayledge as a toilet.

 

[Tinypony]

Talk to a builder. They will get some building materials in boxes made of pallets. So once they have taken the top off and used the contents, you have a nice big hay container. They are very strong, tall enough so a horse won't step in them and the gaps between the slats aren't wide enough for a horse to get a hoof in.